Frameless vs Framed Showerscreens for Your Newcastle Home
When building or renovating a bathroom, both frameless and fully framed showerscreens are popular options for homeowners. Nova Team has extensive experience assisting with installations across both styles in Newcastle, helping to create a contemporary and stylish bathroom space that fits your perfect vision. Here we compare the two styles and their benefits.
What’s the Difference?
Fully framed showerscreens feature a visible frame and fittings, typically made from aluminium, that link to the walls, ceiling or floor. Frameless showerscreens do not. Instead, they are made using thick tempered glass panels which are strong enough not to require a support framework. Frameless showers will use visible brackets, clips or panels to attach to a wall or support a swing-style door.
Benefits of Frameless Showerscreens
Frameless showerscreens are popular for their minimalistic and seamless design, helping to establish a sophisticated and sleek look to a bathroom. Other benefits and features include:
● Easy to install
● Accentuates other bathroom elements
● Makes the bathroom look more spacious
● Easy to create custom shapes and designs
● Fewer metal components corroding over time
● More durable due to a thicker glass
● Easy to clean, with no frame edge and corners where grime and soap scum can build up.
Some potential downsides include a higher cost compared to fully framed showerscreens due to the thicker glass required and special fixtures needed to hold it in place. Depending on the design, more water can escape the shower enclosure area as well.
Benefits of Framed Showerscreens
Framed showerscreens feature aluminium or sometimes steel framing around the entire glass pane edges. Versatile and economical, the shower frame remains a popular option for many homeowners due to their:
● Suitability for a variety of shower designs, bathroom layouts and sizes
● Affordability as the glass held by the frame doesn’t need to be as thick
● Durable and long lasting when built and installed by quality providers
● Easier to incorporate door designs such as swing or sliding doors
● Offers design options such as magnetic door strips that fully enclose the showering space so water doesn’t leak or escape
Fully framed showerscreens do tend to be bulkier and less sleek in appearance compared to frameless options. Another downside is more potential cleaning and maintenance required to keep the shower frame clean and rust-free.
Innovative Showerscreen Designs at Nova Team
At Nova Team, we provide custom designs that enhance the elegance and ambiance of your bathroom. This includes our innovative frameless Hydroslide design that allows for a sleek sliding door without framing and minimal premium fittings. We also offer Vitroglaze on all our shower glass installations. This is a permanent nano coating that prevents build-up of grime and soap scum by up to 90%.
Custom Framed and Frameless Showers in Newcastle
Nova Team provides custom showerscreen installations across Newcastle, Newcastle and surrounding areas in New South Wales. Whether you’re interested in frames, semi-framed or fully framed showers, our experts can help you build the perfect shower space for your needs. Call us on 02 4044 5541 or contact us online to get a free quote.